Section Info: PHIL-101-01

Course Title: Introduction to Philosophy

Start Date: 08/24/2020 End Date: 10/15/2020

Term: Fall Semester 2020

Description: What kind of life should a person live? What can we know about the world? What is the nature of the self? What is the value of the arts? The aim of the course is to learn how to do philosophy by engaging with the answers that philosophers from different periods of history and around the globe give to these and similar questions. We will read historical texts from African, Chinese, European, Native American, and South Asian philosophical traditions, as well as contemporary texts by a variety of living philosophers. We will learn how to analyze arguments in texts, how to make and defend our own views, and we will attend to the historical and cultural context of these views.

Distribution(s): I - Humanities

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Samuel Mitchell	413-538-2387	smitchel@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020	Flex. Immersive Lecture	Monday	08:00AM - 09:15AM	TBA	TBA	Weekly
08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020	Flex. Immersive Lecture	Tuesday and Thursday	08:00AM - 09:00AM			Weekly
08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020	Flex. Immersive Lecture	Wednesday and Friday	08:00AM - 09:45AM			Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

Comments

Additional Comments

Course Tags
MOD0001	MOD-1: Courses meeting in Module 1	This course meets in Module 1.

Cross-listed Sections

None

Course Availability
Section status: Open	Capacity: 75	Enrollment: 52	Available: 23	Waitlist: 0

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
Title: The Norton Introduction to Philosophy Author: Rosen, Byrne, Cohen, Shiffrin, Copyright: 2015 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780393932201 Publisher: Norton	Required	80.00

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.